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MR. MAYALL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC Exhibition

... MR. M1YAL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC Exbibition. Exhibitions of works of art and paintings are common on the hedges of life as blackberries in antnimn, and though our collections of home and foreign pictures, in both water and oil, are beautiful as they are familiar ...

Published: Sunday 19 August 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE TERCENTENARY FUND AND THE Dramatic College

... dilated with national prideas to pour out unbounded wealth to the honour of the Immortal Bard, that suggestions, plenty as blackberries, have been thrown out as to the best means in which to spend this anticipated redundancy, apart from the plans already ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1864
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SHAKSPEREAN FESTIVAL at STRATFORD on Avon

... was told by Wilkinson that be could find better actors than Liston in every roadside hedge; they were as plontiful as blackberries! Some few days arter this unjust and, I need scarcely say, untrothsful remark, the Manager was taking his usual walk ...

Published: Sunday 26 April 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1919 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... excitement, and most exacting in their demand for novelty. The most sanguinary and retributive Drama, though loaded thick as blackberries with crime, horror, and stern but poetic justice, seldom lasts for longer than a week or ten days, when the natural consequence ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1861
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5664 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BOYISH PROFLIGACY

... would be willing to acknowledge that facts equally melodraamatic-nay, tragical-were every day cropping up as thick as blackberries in every court, street, and alley within a hundred yards of the garish 'Theatre, where they sit in spell-bound attention ...

Published: Sunday 24 September 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Notabilia

... for trespassing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hattrin Hall, and taking therefrom, on the 15th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of six- pence, or thereabouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the defendant more than ...

NEW MUSIC

... Anecdotes of the Stage, have for the last forty years rained round us in a perfect storm; indeed, ihey have budded thick as blackberries on the literary hedge of every year within the memory of decent compu- tation. But the reminiscences of an actor, whso ...

Published: Sunday 05 November 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... sensibly may this be done, inasmuch as Irish otors ho can dowithont themappear to be becoming as plentiful as the seasonable blackberry. Of Mr. Dion DUrciCrault's excellencies we have recently spoken. This week we have to record the remarkable suoress of the ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... water to read of the fruits of California. Peaches of the finest flavour; apricots a drug; apples and pears; stravrberries, blackberries, and whortleberries; fresh figs, nectarinesI and all kind of plums, grapes, and melons in great bhun: dance; with a fruit ...

RECENT FRENCH CRITICISM

... his view, the most vigorous and most obnoxious emanation, lately complained that, although ideas are now as abundant as blackberries, the noble art of criticism is nearly clean gone, hinting that with M. Sainte Beuve's departure fromn the ,scene the whole ...

LITERATURE

... to a clever writer's ordinary work. It is true that autobibgraphies of horses, dogs, Cats, and flies are i as plenty as blackberries and as old as the hills, in aliterary sense.; but though Mr. Bennett adopts the same style with his loquacious hero, the ...

Published: Sunday 14 December 1862
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... reasons. We give a new name to a phenomenon, aud faney we have given a reason. Facts, not reasons, are as plentiful as blackberries. Frtxcons DVArc.-A foreign gentlemen, who calls himself Monsieur Francois D'Arc, is at prosetit trav'elling quietly about ...